First, I would like to thank everyone who helped to get the final act of TTI done!. Bravo! I never doubted that it would happen, but did occasionally wonder if I would be around long enough to watch it

Second, I did a request to be added to the Facebook group and I believe someone mistook me for a spammer or some kind of troublemaker and banned my profile from even being able to view the site. I had to create a new fictional facebook page just to access the public page to see what was going on!!! I realize there was some turbulent conversations on this board from reading the comments here (TBBS) BUT REALLY!

Anyway problem solved for now, but I will never again hit the button to "Join Group".

Film is the art of faking reality. Here's a simple example. We have a shot where the main viewscreen flares white for a few frames, but during principle photography no shots were made with bright light coming from behind the screen. To sell the flash, I created a matte of the main viewscreen glow and the light it would cast on the wall and handrails so that I could selectively brighten parts of the image and not others. This affects maybe three frames total, but it sells the illusion.

I just watched the full mix with Ralph Miller's sound work and Hetoryn's music and it's pretty fabulous. Tense as Hell at the climax, IMHO. Seeing the end credits roll with music really does tell you you're done.